Good Lupica About Yankee Stadium

Mike Lupica had two great observations about Yankee Lemon Stadium over the weekend. (Maybe they could claim to be honoring former manager Bob Lemon and say it is named after him).

Right now I don’t know if I can do anything about the wind,” Trost said a few weeks ago.

Well, it might work that way now with the Yankees, but it’s sure not the way it worked when somebody – George Steinbrenner himself – was actually in charge of things. Steinbrenner used to fire managers and general managers and team presidents and P.R. guys and even secretaries for sport. You don’t think the old windbag would have fired somebody for wind?

Read more:http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2009/05/24/2009-05-24_new_yankee_stadiums_home_run_barrage_should_be_an_easy_sell_for_yankees.html?page=1#ixzz0GTCLODIA&B

I still think the solution to the moat/autographs situation is for Rubenstein to put out one of those George Statements like back in the day. They can just write it, they probably always did…and just start with some made up line from George like “I have been away for too long and…”

The other great point by Lupica is that the Yankees have stopped drawing 50,000. Wait til next year when nobody goes.